Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for operating a valve comprising: determining a nonlinear characteristic curve function indicating a required relationship between a valve opening position and flow of a fluid; storing the function in an ECU; and using the function to set the valve opening position with a control signal indicating a target flow. The function is calculated automatically using a parameter value, with an analytic function, or by interpolation with specified supporting values by a user. The function comprises an inverse function based on a characteristic curve for a heat exchanger and a target function. The curve for the heat exchanger indicates a relationship between a heating power or a cooling power and the flow of a fluid. The target function indicates a relationship between the heating power or the cooling power of the heat exchanger based on the valve opening position.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an actuator for a flap or for a valve for adjusting a gaseous or fluid volume flow. The actuator may include: a housing; an electric motor disposed in the housing; a downstream reduction gear; and a positioning element with an actuator connection for the flap or the valve. There is an electromagnet adjacent to an outer side of the rotor with a coil arrangement with a magnetic core. There is an electrical circuit arrangement for activating the electromagnet, providing a first brief current pulse, so a remanent magnetic field remains in the coil core. In a holding position of the actuator, while a mechanical pre-tensioning is set up, there is a holding torque with contact to the outer side of the rotor. The circuit arrangement provides a second brief current pulse to extinguish the remanent magnetic field still present in the coil core for releasing the holding torque with contact, forming an air gap between the electromagnet and the outer side of the rotor.

Abstract: A packaging device (1) for producing packs each comprising several articles is disclosed. The packaging device (1) comprises at least one horizontal conveying device and at least one manipulator (25, 35). Article groups are moved via the at least one horizontal conveying device into a working area (AP1, AP2) of the at least one manipulator (25, 35). The at least one manipulator (25, 35) is designed to combine respective articles of a respective article group, which are moved into its working area (AP1, AP2) via the at least one horizontal conveying device, and for this purpose can apply at least one packaging material (40) to the respective article group.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for picking pallets (17) having beverage containers (9, 10), comprising a device for providing empty pallets, at least two production lines (1, 2), each comprising packers (7, 8) for providing beverage containers (9, 10), a high-bay warehouse (13) for receiving and storing beverage containers (9, 10) and special containers (15), a separate transport device (21), which is designed to transport special containers (15) to the high-bay warehouse (13) and to store them there, transport devices (11, 12), each leading from the production lines (1, 2) to the high-bay warehouse (13) and being designed to transport the beverage containers (9, 10) to the high-bay warehouse (13) and to store them there. The device for picking furthermore comprises one or more palletizers (16), each being designed to move beverage containers (9, 10) and/or special containers (15) provided from the high-bay warehouse (13) to a pallet (17-19).

Abstract: The system interacts with an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, which is connected to the venous vascular system of the a patient via an inflow line and an outflow line. Temperature influencing means for causing an initial local temperature deviation T1 in the vicinity of a first point of the vascular system, as a result of which a traveling temperature change is introduced into the blood flow of the patient, a first temperature sensor for measuring the local temperature of the blood at a second point of the vascular system downstream of the first point, and a second temperature sensor for measuring the local temperature of the blood in the inflow line are provided. A computer system records the local blood temperature measured at the second point and at the inflow line, in each case as a function of time, and ascertains and evaluates a first and second thermodilution curve (TDK1, TDK2).

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for operating a valve comprising: determining a nonlinear characteristic curve function indicating a required relationship between a valve opening position and flow of a fluid; storing the function in an ECU; and using the function to set the valve opening position with a control signal indicating a target flow. The function is calculated automatically using a parameter value, with an analytic function, or by interpolation with specified supporting values by a user. The function comprises an inverse function based on a characteristic curve for a heat exchanger and a target function. The curve for the heat exchanger indicates a relationship between a heating power or a cooling power and the flow of a fluid. The target function indicates a relationship between the heating power or the cooling power of the heat exchanger based on the valve opening position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for packaging articles, piece goods, or containers (12) and/or for grouping the articles, piece goods, or containers (12) to form bundles (32) by way of helically wrapping the articles, piece goods, or containers (12) and/or the groupings, which are transported in a conveying direction (18) in an article flow or piece goods flow (14), into multiple layers of an elastic film about a longitudinal axis extending through the article flow or piece goods flow (14), with the elastic film being applied under tension.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and a device for changing removable carrier units (8a?, 8b?) with flat packaging material (10) wound on supply rolls (9), in particular, packaging film (11) within a packaging machine (3), which is equipped with devices for at least partially wrapping piece goods, containers, article groups, etc., with flat packaging material (10). With the method removable carrier units (8a, 8b) with new supply rolls (9) are fed in a series one after the other to a work area (AB) of a handling device (5), the work area (AB) of which extends into at least one position of the operating position of the removable carrier unit (8a?, 8b?) arranged in the packaging machine (3), which is equipped with a supply roll (9), so that it replaces removable carrier units (8a?, 8b?) located in the packaging machine (3) and used up supply rolls (9?) with new removable carrier units (8a, 8b) with in each case a new supply roll (9).

Abstract: A method for resorting piece goods assortments and in particular packaging unit assortments, includes the steps of supplying a first type of piece goods to a redistribution unit; supplying a second type of piece goods, which is different from the first type, to the redistribution unit; and picking up individual piece goods or groups of piece goods using a pick-up element of the redistribution unit, wherein the pick-up element picks up both piece goods of the first type and also piece goods of the second type and deposits these piece goods in such a way that a piece goods assortment consisting of piece goods of the first type and piece goods of the second type is formed.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and a device for changing removable carrier units (8a?, 8b?) with flat packaging material (10) wound on supply rolls (9), in particular, packaging film (11) within a packaging machine (3), which is equipped with devices for at least partially wrapping piece goods, containers, article groups, etc., with flat packaging material (10). With the method removable carrier units (8a, 8b) with new supply rolls (9) are fed in a series one after the other to a work area (AB) of a handling device (5), the work area (AB) of which extends into at least one position of the operating position of the removable carrier unit (8a?, 8b?) arranged in the packaging machine (3), which is equipped with a supply roll (9), so that it replaces removable carrier units (8a?, 8b?) located in the packaging machine (3) and used up supply rolls (9?) with new removable carrier units (8a, 8b) with in each case a new supply roll (9).

Abstract: A device is provided for applying consumable materials to containers, including a storing apparatus that stores a supply of the consumable material, a transporting apparatus that conveys the consumable material to the containers, and an application unit that applies the consumable material to the containers or to combinations of containers. The device has at least one sensor apparatus, which detects at least one actual value of the consumable material that is characteristic of a physical property of the consumable material, a comparing apparatus, which compares the detected actual value with at least one target value stored in a memory apparatus, and a signal outputting apparatus, which outputs a signal according to a result of said comparison.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cooling a flowable melted food material including: (a) providing a device comprising a first cooling belt and a second cooling belt parallel to the first cooling belt, wherein each cooling belt is continuous and has an outer surface and an inner surface, the first and second cooling belts are aligned at an angle between 45° and 90° relative to horizontal, and the outer surface of the first cooling belt and the outer surface of the second cooling belt are spaced apart to form a gap having a top end and a bottom end; (b) introducing a free-flowing molten food product capable of forming a food product having a pasty consistency is cooling at the top end of the gap; (c) counter-rotating the first and second cooling belts toward each other at the top end of the gap to draw the molten food product between the downward moving outer surfaces of the first and second cooling belts to form a strip of molten food product between the downward-moving outer surfaces of the first and sec

Abstract: A field-based similarity search system includes an input device which inputs a query molecule, and a processor which partitions a conformational space of the query molecule into a fragment graph including an acyclic graph including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, computes a property field on fragment pairs of fragments of the query molecule from the fragment graph, the property field including a local approximation of a property field of the query molecule, constructs a set of features of the fragment pairs based on the property field, the features including a set of local, rotationally invariant, and moment-based descriptors generated from all conformations of the fragment graph of the query molecule, and weights the descriptors according to importance as perceived from a training set of descriptors to generate a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys.

Abstract: A field-based similarity search system includes an input device which inputs a query molecule, and a processor which partitions a conformational space of the query molecule into a fragment graph including an acyclic graph including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, computes a property field on fragment pairs of fragments of the query molecule from the fragment graph, the property field including a local approximation of a property field of the query molecule, constructs a set of features of the fragment pairs based on the property field, the features including a set of local, rotationally invariant, and moment-based descriptors generated from all conformations of the fragment graph of the query molecule, and weights the descriptors according to importance as perceived from a training set of descriptors to generate a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys.

Abstract: The invention provides a device (1) having at least one inlet conveyor belt (3) for loose, un-grouped articles (5), and at least one grouping device (7) for the loose, un-grouped articles (5) for the orderly composing of articles. An outlet conveyor belt (9) is associated with the grouping device (7), said outlet conveyor belt (9) feeding the articles thereon grouped without containers to a packaging device (10). The invention also provides a method for composing packages for a packaging machine.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a machine to group and join at last two articles by attaching a first packaging to form a packaging unit. The individual packaging units are joined together with an additional second packaging to form a bigger unit. The process is carried out continuously, whereby the packaging units are transposed or not.

Abstract: A relation is formed between an n-tuple having n components and formed at a first point in time and at least one other n-tuple having n components formed at at least one corresponding later point in time, wherein n is a natural number equal to or greater than 1, and the components comprise at least one derived parameter and/or one read-in data value. If this relationship satisfies a predetermined calibration criterion, a calibration signal is triggered and is displayed, and/or automatically triggers a recalibration of the haemodynamic monitoring device. For example, the pulse contour cardiac output PCCO is derived from the arterial pressure curve as the constituent component of a 1-tuple. As long as this differs from the reference cardiac output CORef by less than a predefined threshold value, for example 101 or 15% of the reference cardiac output, parameter determination continues without initiating a new calibration.

Abstract: A field-based similarity search system includes an input device which inputs a query molecule, and a processor which partitions a conformational space of the query molecule into a fragment graph including an acyclic graph including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, computes a property field on fragment pairs of fragments of the query molecule from the fragment graph, the property field including a local approximation of a property field of the query molecule, constructs a set of features of the fragment pairs based on the property field, the features including a set of local, rotationally invariant, and moment-based descriptors generated from all conformations of the fragment graph of the query molecule, and weights the descriptors according to importance as perceived from a training set of descriptors to generate a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys.

Abstract: A similarity search method includes generating a feature database which stores data pertaining to a candidate molecule, as executed by a processor of a computer, the database including a hash table having entries which are generated based on, a set of descriptors generated from conformations of fragment graphs of the candidate molecule, the fragment graphs including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, a specific conformation of the fragment node including a fragment of the candidate molecule, and two neighboring fragments connected by a rotatable bond at a specific dihedral angle including a fragment pair, and a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys including indices that label grid cells in discriminant space.

Abstract: The invention concerns a sensor cassette that can be inserted into an analyzer comprising a continuous measuring channel for receiving fluidic media and sensory elements for determining chemical and/or physical parameters of the fluidic media. According to the invention the sensor cassette consists of at least two permanently connected but separately manufactured modules which each have a housing and a measuring channel section wherein the measuring channel sections of adjacent modules are connected to the continuous measuring channel by a fluidic coupling and wherein at least one of the connected modules is designed as a sensor module and has a sensor array comprising at least two sensory elements. Furthermore, a memory element is allocated to the sensor cassette on which specific information for the sensor cassette in particular with regard to its construction from the respective modules is stored.